Gestures during speaking are typically understood in a representational framework: they
represent absent or distal states of affairs by means of pointing, resemblance, or symbolic …

The first gestures that children produce intentionally to communicate with others, make
sense of the world around them, and control their behavior are ostensive gestures of …

Developmental precursors of the prelinguistic transition from gestures to word use can be
found in the early pragmatic usage of auditory and visual signals across contexts. This study …

Children's rhythmic movements during the first year of life possess a meaningful predictive
validity for later communicative development. However, their role within adult-child …

Purpose: This study aims to analyze the development of gesture–speech temporal
alignment patterns in children's narrative speech from a longitudinal perspective and …

The present study aimed at investigating the ability of 7‐to 20‐month‐old infants to display
attention‐sensitive communication using either canonical markers of language acquisition …

From early on, infants produce a variety of rhythmic behaviors—an ability that likely supports
later social communication. However, it is unclear, how this rhythmic motor production …

Attention-sensitive signalling is the pragmatic skill of signallers who adjust the modality of
their communicative signals to their recipient's attention state. This study provides the first …

The chapter proposes rhythm as a paradigmatic example of the relationship between
intersubjective development and the development of multisensory perception during the first …

Among the first baby communications, we find the bimodal collaborations of gesture and
word. In this chapter, we present some considerations on the types of baby gestures and …